Beijing to allow doctors to set up independent private clinics

The Beijing health department will for the first time allow doctors to set up their own clinics funded by private investors. At its annual work meeting the health department announced that doctors may now apply to set up private clinics. The new policy will require alterations to the current sustem of doctors remueration and the personnel assigment system for the healthcare system, the department said. It will require changes in the way public hospital departments employ doctors and also changes in work contracts